@proceedings {17696,
	title = {Boulder deposits on the southeastern coast of Cyprus and their relation with palaeotsunami events of the Eastern Mediterranean},
	journal = {RCG2019 {\textquotedblleft}Geomorphology of Climatically and Tectonically Sensitive Areas{\textquotedblright}},
	year = {2019},
	address = {Athens - Greece},
	abstract = {<div>Cyprus has a long record of tsunami waves, as noted by archaeological and geological\&nbsp;records. Large boulder deposits have been noted in southeastern and western part of the\&nbsp;Island. In the area of Cape Greco (southeastern Cyprus) large boulders have been noted,\&nbsp;however, no detailed geomorphological research exists so far and the related high energy\&nbsp;event remains undated. In this context, we focused at Cape Greco Peninsula at the\&nbsp;southeastern coast of Cyprus, in order to record in detail large boulders deposits. The\&nbsp;accumulation of the boulders along the uplifted coastline (3m amsl) was recorded. The</div>
<div>boulders are fragments of a layer of an upper Pleistocene aeolianite, which is overlaying\&nbsp;unconformly a lower Pleistocene calcarenite. Dimensions and spatial distribution of 272 small,\&nbsp;medium and large boulders were documented. The precise distance of the boulders\&nbsp;deposition from the coastline was recorded by field measurements and remote sensing with\&nbsp;the use of GNSS, Drone mapping and GIS technics. Several large boulders weighting more\&nbsp;than ~30 metric tons were located up to 60m inland. Geomorphologic mapping and\&nbsp;morphometric measurements, along with the presence of marine organisms suggests that\&nbsp;some of the boulders were removed from their original intertidal zone and were transported\&nbsp;inland by the force of large waves. Samples of Vermetus sp. were collected from the\&nbsp;displaced boulders in order to date the extreme event. In this work, we report and compare\&nbsp;preliminary results from the application of widely accepted hydrodynamic equations, in order\&nbsp;to determine the extreme event that caused their transport inland. We further attempt a\&nbsp;correlation of the event with already known tsunami events from Eastern Mediterranean,\&nbsp;based on the estimated wave heights and the radiocarbon dating of marine gastropods\&nbsp;(Vermetus sp.).</div>},
	author = {Evelpidou, N. and Synolakis, C. and Zerefos, C. and Repapis, C and Karkani, A. and Polidorou, M. and Saitis, G.}
}
